In the Chamber, princes, nawabs, rajas and maharajas sat under their painted armorial shields, fingering their silky beards, their brocaded turbans, their jeweled necklaces .
You remember, vaguely, bookplates you have knownheavy engravings of armorial bearings in large volumes bound in calfcute, little bookplates, nauseatingly quaint, with .
Despite the fact that services of armorial Lowestoft of that size are as rare as fragments of the True Cross, Dealer Cloran believed.
Meissen Armorial Urns Bring $201,250 At Cottone Auction GENESEO, N.Y. — A pair of antique Meissen armorial covered urns sailed past its high estimate of $15,000 to attain $201,250 at Cottone Auction’s fall fine art and antiques auction October 4–5. The urns were the top lot in an auction that grossed $2.2 million.
Oct. 15, 2013 - Antiques and the Arts